The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, November 07, 1895, Image 1
VOL. XXII, NO. 15.
DARLINGTON, S. U., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1895.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,083.
THE OLD GINHOUSE.
pwaring pine* have grown around It,
Trumpet vines with garlands bound it,
Yellow Jasmines climbed and crowned It,
Laughing down their green and gold.
Tendrils through each crack escaping
Hide the worn roof widely gaping,
Every hole with beauty draping
In the ginhouse gray and old.
In the morn the squirrels peeping,
O’er the rafters lightly leaping,
With a bark awake the sleeping
Owl, who blinks up, drowsy polled;
And at night, with sudden stirring
From the eaves, the wan light blurring,
Flit the bats with dusky whirring
Round the ginhouse gray and old.
Oh, the days well nigh forgotten,
When along the floor now rotten
Waves and waves of snowy cotton
Oft in billowy beauty rolled.
While the tollers wrought a-singing
Mellow lays that yet are ringing
O’er the tide of time still winging
From the ginhouse gray and oldl
Oh, those songs with sweetness teeming,
Chasing care And pain redeeming!
Often still they soothe my dreaming,
By sad memory softly trolled,
And at eve their echoes dying
Haunt me, 'neath the pine trees lying,
Listening to the wind low sighing
Round the ginhouse gray and old.
Lorn is now the old plantation,
Fairest spot in all creation,
Teardrops choke the sad relation
And its sorrow can’t be told.
Poets lilt of ruins hoary
Over sea in song and story.
All must yield in beauty's glory
To the jasmined ginhouse old.
—8. M. Peck in New York Independent
IT WAS EASY TO DO OVER.
How Her Husband's Desk Was Transform
ed Into a Sideboard.
A suburban woman Is obliged to en
dure the gibes and jeers of her family
without retaliation because of her cred
ulous faith in a suburban cabinet maker.
An heirloom, on the hnsband'a side, was
an old fashioned mahogany desk of
more enrioos than artistic make. It was
useless as a desk and not pretty as a
piece of old bric-a-brao, so when an idea
for its evolution came to her she was
doubly pleased. She consulted the su
burban cabinet maker, who prononneed
her plan entirely feasible and announced
himself willing to carry it ont before
she broached it to her husband.
"Make a buffet, or serving sideboard,
out of my great-grandfather 's deskl”
repeated be, when it was broached. “It
can’t be done, my dear, and I hate to
have it touched too.”
"But you don’t like it," now coaxed
the wife, "and the cabinet maker says
it will be very easy to do over. It will
be the desk, slightly enlarged, that is
all. The lovely doors will be set under
the shelf as panels, and those graeeful
columns will stand out in added beauty
as front supports. He will have to add
a little wood and introduce a mirror,
but all the choice mahogany of the desk
will be preserved and show much more
effectively. ”
In the end he was persuaded, and the
desk was taken away. Some weeks
passed, during which the wife made
several visits of inspection to the cabinet
shop, seeing parts of the work and ac
quiescing to various suggestions and ad
ditions to the original plan.
The evolved buffet was finally deliv
ered one evening not long ago. Its own
father would never have known it
There were six feet of sideboard against
the former two of desk, and the original
doors and columns were there, but that
was all of the first piece of furuiture,
which had been built on and added to
till it stretched half way across the din
ing room.
The wife turned pale, the husband
groaned. “What have yon douef" cried
one.
"My lost great-grandfather’s desk!”
exclaimed the other.
The cabinet maker withdrew, after
laying a folded paper upon the table.
The hosband rallied first and opened it
It wak a bill of $86 for "work and wood
furnished. ’ ’ Curtain I — New York
Times.
Vrachmmi Believe la Women'. Ability.
Frenchmen are great believers in
women’s work, and a splendid tribute
to the educational value of women bus
just been paid by Le Temps, which
strongly advocates their appointment to
all state schools for boys up to the age
of Ik years. The military laws of the
country cause, it seems, an annual dim
inution in the number of male school
masters, and there seems some danger
of the supply ultimately falling far
short of tl»e demand, lie Temps sug
gests this possibility should be antici
pated by appointing schoolmistresses, so
that young France seems more than
likely to be trained by the gentler sex.
Woman, says this influential organ, is
a far better educator than man, and
boys trained by her up to an age when
firm discipline is required are certain to
have the foundation of stronger and
nobler characters laid than when placed
from early childhood in the hands of
men. This ia indeed a tribute to the
gentler aex.
Prmy.rful k.took'.
A Puritan preacher named Boyd was
in the baibt of inveighing against Crom
well. Secretary Thurlow informed the
latter, advising him to have the man
shot “He’s a fool, and you're anoth
er,” said the protector. “I’ll pay him
out in his own coin. ’’ He asked Boyd
to dinner and before giving him any
prayed for three hours.
A Witty Abbot.
Francis I of France, being desirous to
raise a learned man to the highest dig
nities of the church, asked him if be
was of noble descent “Your majesty, ”
answered the abbot, "there were three
brothers in Noah's ark, but I cannot tell
positively from which of them I de
scended. ” The witty abbot obtained the
appointment
For cramp or rheumatism in the legs
jof poultry stand the bird for several
minutes in water as hot at the hand can
bear, rubbing the lega well for several
K nutea. After drying anoint and rub
>U with lard and alooholj
IT WAS GOOD WHISKY.
Bat Blackburn and CarlUlo Proved They
Were Judge, of Fleror.
i Joe C. 8. Blackburn and John G. Car
lisle were some years ago visiting a
, common friend at bis summer residence.
The host had some old Kentucky whisky
i of which he was very proud, and this
was. in bis estimation, the richest treat
he could offer the Kentuckians. It lay in
his cellars in the original package, aud
as the Kentuckians had about finished
the pint which bad just been drawn off
he took occasion to say that the whisky
was 19 years old.
"No,’’saidMr. Carlisle; “tbat’svery
good whisky, but it’s only 17 years
old.”
Mr. Blackburn said, "That’s right,
John, and it came from Bourbon oonn-
ty, in my old district.”
The host agreed that it was Bourbon
county whisky, bnt maintained that it
was 19 years old and asked his visitors
for a candid opinion of its merits.
Blackburn tried another glass and said,
"I have only one fault to find, aud that
is a slight flavor of rusty metal. ” Car
lisle filled again and said that, so far as
he was concerned, he was unable to de
tect any flavor of metal, but that it did
taste a little leathery.
This criticism rather wrought on the
feelings of their boat, who declared that
it was impossible that either leather or
metal could have come in contact with
the goods, as they were still in the
wood, and, as for the age, ho would
take them into the cellar, where they
conld satisfy themselves on that score.
Into the cellar they went, and the seals
showed that Mr. Carlisle’s estimate of
their age was correct. This the host con
fessed after an examination, bnt lie re
fused to admit that there was any off
flavor to his pet brand. The Kentuckians
tasted again and were more firmly set
in their opinions than before. Finally
the host undertook to have the entire
package decanted off to aettle the dis
pute, and when the last dregs were
reached an old fashioned carpet tack,
with a leather washer, was found in the
bottom of the barrel. That of course
ended the discussion, and the host has
never since disputed the word of a Ken
tuckian when he was talking about
whisky.—Cincinnati Tribuna
THE END OF MANKIND.
BREAKING A MIRROR.
IU Slgnlflcaas* Vo the Girl With * Supers,
■titious Turn.
“There,” said the girl who was get
ting ready to go out, "I’ve broken my
hand mirror! What does that mean!”
“Seven years of sorrow,” said her
friend. “It also betokens that you will
quarrel with your dearest friend. ”
“Charlie? That would be too dread
ful I”
"Charlie? I thought you al#ays
counted me your dearest friend? So you
have let the cat out of the bag! That
pudding headed Charlie Strong I Before
I’d”—
“You needn’t say anything more,
Sue Garland. I hate you I And as for
Charlie, you know you would have giv
en your eyes to have caught him 1”
"Pooh! 1 refused h!m half a dozen
times before he ever looked at you. I
wish you good afternoon and a better
temper, my dear!” and the friend slam
med the door behind her.
There were several other girls left,
and they one and all began to Condole
with the girl who had broken her hand
mirror. But she was inconsolable.
“Yon see how it has acted already,
and if there are to be seven years of it I
shall just die, I know I shall 1 There,
I’ve quarreled with Sue, the dearest
girl in the world, and that’s only the
beginning!”
"Let me see where it’s broken,’’ said
one of her chums, as she picked up the
cause of the trouble. “
“There’s a fracture right through the
length of the glass, but I don't know
bow it came there. I didn't drop it or
strike it against anything. Seven years I
Ain’t it just awful?”
“Seven grandmothers!” exclaimed
the other girl. “That isn’t a fractura
It’s nothing bnt a streak of moist air.
Look, I can wipe it o# with my hand
kerchief!”
"So It is. Ob, you dear thing! Run
right after Sue and bring her back. Tell
her the glass wasn’t broken aud we
haven’t quarreled after all! Aud the
seven yeara are np already, aud, oh,
ain’t I just thankful”—Detroit Free
Press.
KENTUCKY HUMOR.
The Maklnc of Tubing.
One of the most important parts of
the bicycle, because it is the most iu
evidence, is the tubing. The manufac
ture of tubing is now carried on to a
large extent in this country, although it
is hut recently that the home production
has reached u stage of perfection where
it could successfully compete with that
of the English concerns.
There are u number of methods of
making tnbing, bnt the one mostly iu :
vogne at present is what is termed the
cold drawn process, aud it is of this style
of tnbing that all the high grade ma
chines are at present being made. The
machinery required is ponderous, aud :
the power required to draw out a piece
of steel without heating it is another ex
hibition of the perfection of modern ma
chinery.
There are a number of variationa to
the method employed, one of which con
sists in taking a piece of steel in the
shape of a bar or ingot. This is bored
through the center. It is then passed
through a die, after which it is heated
ami treated to a bath in a aecret prepa
ration which removes the temper that
the drawing process imparts. This is re
peated a number of times, and each die
used is smaller than its predecessor, with
the result that the tube grows smaller
aud longer. This is continued till the
tube is the right diameter and gauge.—
Chicago Tribuna
Tho Coming' of Fall.
And now ooim'9 jolly autumn, fire wing lear***,
Like liberal largcttfl round a prince’s path.
His fat cheek smile beams out on garnered
sheaves
And all the spilling coffers that he hath.
The thud of falling fruits, too ripe to cling,
Drum music makes for his plebeian state.
About his path a blackbird rabble sing,
Upon wbnm aldenuania robins wait.
He sprinkles round him showers of berry blea
And tweaks the generous ears of stately
corn.
tie thumps the answering melons learnedly
And flutters apples flushing like the mom.
Thus plods h*. chuckling, down the sunlit
lanes,
Assessing what the spring had hoped to
clear,
And levying 01 the summer’s heavy gains—
The general tax collector of the year.
—Rupert Hughes in New York Sun.
The Lowell Family.
The Lowella hold an honored place in
the local history of New England. One
member of the family introduced cotton
spinning into the United Statee, and for
him the town of Lowell ia named. An
other left money to found in Boston the
course of lectures known as the Lowell
institute. The moat famous of them all
was James Russell Lowell, born iu
1819 ut Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 2!i,
also the birthday of the most distin
guished of all Americans.—"James
Rnssell Lowell," by Urouder Matthews,
iu St. Nicholas.
A New Buccy
and a nice new set of harness
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No Precedent.
During a session of the territorial leg
islature of Montana, held more than 80
years ago, a measure was introduced
which appeared to some people to in
volve serious constitutional questions.
One man, who was supposed to possess
great oratorical powers, declaimed fierce
ly against the measure, claiming that it
was “clearly in opposition to the great
principles of Magna Cbarta, which the
brave barons in days of old had wrested
from King John, a blessed result of a
bloody conflict”
A lawyer, more famed for his sturdy
common sense than for erudition, rose
Consoling Him.
Old Bullion—It galls me to think
that my money goes into your spend
thrift hands when I die. I
Young Bullion—Never mind, gov
ernor, it won't stay there long.—In
dianapolis Journal.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
It is the ardor of the assailaut that
makes the vigor of the defendant—
Emerson.
$35.
I now have, and to arrive, the
largest stock of CARRIAGES.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND
HARNESS l have had for ten
years. Call and examine before
buying.
C. W. HEWITT.
GOTO
LOUISE SCHMID
Only
A Limited
Quantity of Those
Olehrnteit,Count} itHiscil, fled
Unst-Proft’ Seed Oats to Otter
This Seakon.
This Oat stands pre-eminently
above all others for pur
ity, &c., having
been
Planted and Improved for 30
Years, or more.
N. B.—Be sure to see our Oats
before making your purchase.
Judicial Sale.
ST A TE OF SOUTH CA HO LIN A.
County of Darlinyton.
Alfred A. Hewlett, Moses C. Dolby,
immediately to reply to this burst of | un ,i Arthur 0. Vaughan vs Clarence
S. Nettles and George A. Norwood A
Co.
8el«ntl,L Who I>II.t« That the tinman
Rime Will Shrink Away.
There is a whole school of European
scientists who believe that this world
will “come to an end,” as far as man
kind are concerned, Jl» about the year
4000 A. D., by the human race degen
erating until they finally disappear from
the face of the globe. French, English
and German statisticians of this school
have been stodyiug the military and
other record for proof of their unique
theories, and if their published accounts
are reliable they have been surprisingly
successful
The records used by both the German
and the Frenchman extend back nearly
400 years. From these it is learned that 1
the average height of continental Eu- i
repeans in 1610 was 6 feet 9 inches. In
1790 they had degenerated until the
average was only 5 feet '6 inches and 80
years later, iu 1820, it was only 8 feet
5 inches. At the present time it is only .
8 feet 8% inches. It is an easy matter
for expert statisticians to dednee from
the above figures facts that will prove a
regular and very rapid decline in human
stature. Figuring in an opposite direc
tion, it ia shown that the men of 8,000
years ago were giants, whose average
height was 16 feet and 9 inches. Com
ing down to our era it is shown that the
average height of man was 9 feet, aud
that in the fifth century there were more
men that were over 7 feet high than
were loss than 6.
Bnt the most astonishing results of
this scientific story of degeneration
come from the application of this law
of gradual diminution to the futura It
is shown that by the end of the year
8600 A. D. the staiure of the average
man will be reduced to 18 Inches, aud
that within less than BOO years from
that date, or, say, about the year 4000,
mankind will have utterly disappeared
from the globe.—St Louis Republia
Aninnluc Bla.d.r of EmproM Eagonlo.
An amusing incident occurred while
the pages were rehearsing the part they
had to play in certain festivities. They
were chosen from among thediminutive
grooms in the emperor’s stables, and
when the costume was ready a pretty
boy, who seemed about 12 years of age,
was brought to the empress for her ex
amination and approval The dress
pleased her, and she turned the boy
around to inspect him fully, setting bis
velvet cap jauntily on his curls, whi h
she arranged to her satisfaction, adjust
ing his ruff, etc.: then, kindly patting
hia cheek, she inquired:
“How old are you, my little friend?”
“Twenty, madam.”
The scream of dismay which follow
ed and the amusement of the bystand
ers may bo imagined.—Century.
Sunlight and Fire.
It is not servant girl stupi9ity alone,
for many half educated people will as
sert that sunlight puts out fire. Some
such great patency the sun is suppoeed
to possess, in a power to extinguish any
poor fire made by human hands. This
belief, it is possible, owes its origin in
sun worship, for of all nature’s phenom
ena the action of the sun must have
been the one which had the strongest
effect on primitive man. We know pos
itively that the sun has nothing to do
with the burning of combustibles on
this earth. Nevertheless to believe that
it does is one of the popular errors most
difficult to quash.—New York Time*.
Id Mm Eeeture Koala.
Professor Colors—In this prism blue
predominates. Mr. Callow, what is the
relative value of the blue and the red?
Callow (jnst wakinfc up)—Why, the
bine U 26 cents aud the red is
Some Anecdotes of Humphrey Marshall,
Soldier ami Congressman.
Edward J. McDermott, in an article
entitled “Fun on the Stump” in The
Century, relates the following:
Jnst before the war Humphrey Mar
shal] was a great debater iu congress.
Daring the war he was a Confederate
general. He was very large aud stout—
a veritable Falstaff. At the breaking
ont of the war he wrote to an officer of
the north and warned him not to invade
the sacred soil of Kentucky, for if he
did he would have to pass over the dead
body of Humphrey Marshall The north
ern officer replied: '‘Dear general, we
won't pass over your dead body. We
prefer to tunnel through. ”
After the war the general had a good
practice, but he was extravagant and
often iu need of money. Once he was
dogged by a collector who hud been put
off dozens of times. At last the collector
said: "General, you have said to me
time after time: ‘I cannot pay yon this
week. Come next. ’ Now, I can't afford
to be coming here all the time. Yon
must fix the day. When will you be able
to pay me?” "D—n it, sir,” said the
general, “do yon think lam a prophet?”
When the general was running for
congress against Mr. Blank, after the
war, be tried to draw ont Mr. Blank’s
exact opinions by a close debate on the
stump. In such an intellectual conflict
few men conld compete with Humphrey
Marshall Mr. Blank parried and fenced
as well as be could. Finally Marshall
said'oue evening in bis ponderons tones
and impressive manner:
“Fellow citizens, I have tried to pin
Mr. Blank down and make him give me
a fair statement of his opinions and
principles, bnt he flits about so nimbly
that it is impossible to follow him in an
argument. In dodging a debate he re
minds me of a bobolink flitting along a
zigzag worm fence, hopping or flying,
first on one side of the fence and then
on the other, until the mind is bewil
dered, and it is impossible to tell on
which side he is at any moment ”
fiery eloquence, evidently bent on mak
ing it clear that he for one was not to
be overcome by high sounding words or
obscure allusions.
“It’s of mighty little importance
what the opinions of King John aud his
man McCaithy were,” he minounoed
firmly, adding that it was high time for
legislative bodies of Montana to think
and act for themselves without any refer
ence to the principles which governed
the remote authorities quoted by his
colleague.
The first orator’* speech had made
acme Impression, but the retort was re
ceived with the enthusiasm which it
deserved, and it was owing to his in
fluence rather than that of his more
brilliant predecessor that the measure
was defeated.—Youth’s Companion.
Kroltition of % Name.
An amusing account is given of the
evolution of a name. A man named
Halfpenny lived in Dublin at the end of
the last century. Having been very suc
cessful in business, his children per
suaded him to change his name to a
more dignified one, which be did by
dropping the last letter.
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LATEST STYLES
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! By virtue of ft decretal order ituming
' out of the Circuit Court of Common
Pleas in Chancery, I will sell at
public vendue at the door of the
court house of the county of Dar
lington on the first Monday in De
cember ,1895, between the hours of
eleven o'clock in the forenoon and
five o'clock in the afternoon, the
following property, to wit:
(1) One lot lying and being situate
within the corporate limits of the
town of Darlington, in the county and
State aforesaid, fronting on Main St.
two hundred and twenty four (224)
feet, and running a depth of one hun
dred and thirty four feet, bounded
north by Brt>ad street; east by lot of
one Jeffords, south by lot of Central
Carolina Land and Improvement Co.,
and west by Main street.
(2) One other lot containing one
aud nineteen one-hundredths acres,
. designated as lot number thirty-two
• rii a plat made by George W. Earle,
| civil engineer, for J. J. Ward, dated
Noveinuer 2, 1885, bounded north by
Broad street; east by Main street:
j south by lot of Frank Muldrow, and
In the coarse of time the orthography west by lot of E. H. Deas; said lot
was also changed, and when the man having a frontage of two hundred
diM he wu» burii’.l “Mr. U.
fort uues of the family iiicreaaea still, . . . .
further, and the son soon dropped the H. , <*> c f. r l a ‘ n P* 6 '*' P*™ 1
’ . . . or tract of laud situate id the county
The next transltinTi wan an Annullv ' a .. ... . *
Note This, Please:
We have just received a car
load of
FLOUR! FLOUR 1 ! FLOOR!!!
Same having been bought be
fore the advance in the market,
but shipment delayed on ac
count of
FIRE
in the Mill. We are in position
therefore, to offer you bargains
in Flour. We carry at all times
a complete stock of
Groceries, “ ‘
For Christmas Gifts, Wedding
Gifts, or Gifts of any kind, call
and see
Clothing
at Cost!
We are now offering a large
stock of
Father Ducej.
There are few clergymen or priests
in this city who have the wide acquaiut-
anoe and influence of Father Ducey of
St. Leo’s Roman Catholic church.
Father Dacey’s influence is by no means
limited to persons of his own faith. A
friend recently told me a story illus
trating the priest’s methods. According
to my friend, Father Ducey entered
Delmonico’s cafe one night not long
ago and walking up to a party of
wealthy gentlemen seated at one of the
tables said: “I have jnst come from a
visit to a family, one member of which
is at the point of death. The family is
destituta I want |100 from yon gentle
men. ” In a moment eaoh member of
the party had handed the priest a bank
note, and he walked ont with the $100,
which he took, although it was almost
midnight, directly to the afflicted fam
ily. Not one of the men who contrib
uted the money was a Catholic.—New
York World
Women on the’Bicyclo.
What a pretty thing a woman on a
bicycle is 1 Her pose ia good. She sits
erect and rides easily, gracefully. Most
men stoop while riding. Women sit
erect Men always seem to be on busi
ness bent and in a hurry. Women appear
to ride for pleasure aud in no burry.
Men have the bicycle face, arising, it ia
said, from the care they have to bestow
to avoid accident. Women have the air
of easy indifference, unoousciousness of
risk They ride as the true goddesa
walked.—Cincinnati Commercial Ga-
aette.
The sea nettle stings its prey to death
by means of a pouoa secreted ia itt
tentacle*.
transition was an equally
easy oue, and he who had run the
streets as little Kenny Halfpenny came
out us Kenneth MacAlpin, the descend
ant of o hundred kings.—Boston Trav
eller.
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Where Millions Are Made.
There is a gray, severe building tow
ering up from the foot of Broadway.
There aie no signs upon its walla Ita
windows are not letteied. It preserve*
an air of mystery. The only outward
clew to the solution of it is the rubber
doormat, for iu the intricacies of its de
sign oue can cipher the letters “S. O.
Co.” The building looks toward the
North river and over the vast oil yards
and refineries q£ the Kill von Kull It
is the headquarters of the most power
ful trade combination in America—the
Standard Oil company. It is here that
the Rockefeller brothers toil and spin
their millions.—New York Advertiser.
and State aforesaid, containing two
hundred acres, more or less, bounded
on north and west by lands of Samuel
Maico and A Nachman: east by lauds
of (J. I). Norris, and south by a small
branch.
Terms of sale one half cash, balance
on a credit of twelve mouths, with
| privilege to pay ail cash Furchaser
1 to pay for necessary papers.
R. K. CHARLES,
Knox Livingston, Master,
Plaintiffs’ Attorney.
The South Right In It.
The south, equally with the west,
will have a really enormous corn crop
this year, far in excess of any in its
history. According to present prospects,
it will be from 600,000,000 to 660.000,-
000 bnshels, worth about $300,000,000.
Indeed every crop in the south, with
the exception of cotton, will be unprec
edentedly large this year, and although
the cotton crop will be smaller than
usnal its money value will be above the
average.
The Isom Sloans of Kentucky.
There is an awful warning to those
parents who continue to name children.
after their relatives. Up in Knott conn-,
ty, on Cauey creek, the practice lias
been carried to an excess, and the result
I is that the Sloan family numbers among
; its members the following: Big Isom
Sloan, Hard's Isom, Sou’s Isom, Isom’s
Isom, Jailer Isom, Sorrel Hoad Isom,
Jim’s Isom, Little Isom, Andy’s Isom,
Snmm’s Isom, Jimbo'slsom, Big Isom's
Isom and Sorrel Head Isom's Isom.—
Louisville Post
Identical With th. Bible.
A Babylonian tablet in Ihe British
museum which has been deciphered has
I an account of the death of King Senna-,
cherib almost identical with that in the
Bible(II Kings, xix, a?).—Philadelphia
Record.
The word sunny borrowed its original
significance from astrology. It described
a person born under the influence of th*
sun, this lumiuary being suppoeed to
exercise a beneficial influence an the
character of the individual
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This is your opportunity to
get a good suit cheap.
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